[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Oswego: Art.
I, 5-12-1980 as Ch. 35, Art. I, of the 1980 Code; Art. II, 2-14-1990 (Ch.
35, Art. II, of the 1980 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]

No person or persons shall remove any papers, specifications, plans,
documents or records or any property whatsoever belonging to the city from
any room or department in the City Hall building, except with the permission
of the Mayor, Common Council or department having charge of the same. Any
person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be subject to
a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.).

The City Clerk shall keep a record of all real property and interest
in real property acquired by the city and shall provide and keep for the purpose
a suitable book, which shall contain the following entries, to be made by
him, relating to such property, together with such additional data in any
particular case as he or the Mayor or Common Council may deem important.

In case of lands that have been or may hereafter be so
dedicated by any party, where no actual conveyance has been made, there shall
be entered a description of such lands, with date and manner of dedication
with reference to any matter of record and to all maps relating thereto. There
shall also be entered any improvement or other act done by the city, declaring
or indicating an intent to accept said lands for public use.

Records Retention and Disposition Schedule MU-1, issued pursuant to
Article 57-A of the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law and containing legal minimum
retention periods for municipal government records, is hereby adopted for
use by all municipal officers in disposing of municipal government records
listed therein.